SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Chef Swears By Deep-Frying His In-N-Out Burgers, But He's Not Serving Them The only way to make an In-N-Out burger better is to deep-fry it. https://t.co/huZoB7FJ27 pic.twitter.com/VfVTMn01J0— MUNCHIES (@munchies) July 6, 2016 Sean O'Toole, chef at three-year-old Napa restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Wine Thieves Who Allegedly Struck The French Laundry Arrested Two alleged thieves who went on a spree of wine burglaries in the cellars of high-end restaurants around the Bay Area in the last few years were arrested Wednesday, as the Chronicle is
SF News Lawsuit Settled In Case Of Alleged Napa Valley Wine Train Racism A lawyer representing the eleven women kicked off of the Napa Valley Wine Train last August said yesterday that the group has settled their racial discrimination suit against the company. Bay City News
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Wonder, Florence + The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers Top Bottlerock 2016 Lineup Like basically every other music festival everywhere, Napa-based BottleRock has become very popular, and it's now heading into its fourth year over Memorial Day weekend. Today we get the complete lineup including the
SF News Vintage Porsches Collide In Napa Rally, Oakland Man Killed An Oakland man's death during a vintage car rally has been reported by CBS SF. According to Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Blower, about 35 to 40 cars were participating in an event known
SF News NorCal Man's Headache Was Actually Worm Eggs In His Brain Well, here's nightmare fodder for pretty much ever. Sacramento State senior Luis Ortiz just thought he had an awful headache, but when he sought medical attention, he learned that things were much, much
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Restaurant at Meadowood To Open Casual Alternative In St. Helena Want to taste the talents of chef Christopher Kostow but can't afford the mint that would take for an evening at Meadowood? Well, then you're in luck as the two-person team behind Napa's
SF News Charges Dropped Against Former Crack Kingpin Pulled Over With $100K In Cash A Sonoma County Judge dropped recent charges against former crack kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross today after claims by Ross that his arrest was the result of racial profiling. Ross was arrested last Thursday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matthew Lightner's Ninebark Opens In Napa On October 13 Acclaimed chef Matthew Lightner, who's moved to the Bay Area from Portland via a Michelin-two-star stint in New York, will be debuting his latest venture Ninebark next Tuesday, October 13, in downtown Napa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Women Kicked Off Wine Train Will Seek $11 Million In Damages The East Bay women's book club who were unceremoniously removed from the Napa Valley Wine Train on Saturday, August 22 after allegedly being too loud and disruptive for other guests are now officially
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] PR Fixer Sam Singer Brought In To Help Napa Wine Train, Issues Apology To Black Women's Book Club Now that the Napa Valley Wine Train's unceremonious treatment of eleven women on Saturday has made national headlines and even landed on CBS This Morning, the train company's hired none other than notorious
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Of Black Women Say They Were 'Humiliated' By Removal From Napa Wine Train A group of 10 African American women and one white woman whose book club goes on an annual wine-tasting excursion to Napa were reportedly treated unfairly aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Celeb Chef Lineup For 2015 I know, I know. It's August. But as is now traditional, this is the time of year when The Restaurant at Meadowood up in St. Helena finalizes their star chef lineup for their
SF News [Update] Wind-Whipped Fire South Of Lake Berryessa Now 80% Contained #WraggFire pic.twitter.com/lsAnhWlSD7— Elizabeth Rogers (@Shescountry_86) July 23, 2015 A fire ignited yesterday and spread quickly in the area south of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Solano Counties, and it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed New York Chef Matthew Lightner Taking Over Iconic Fagiani's In Napa Big news for downtown Napa's food scene today: The Thomas, the restaurant concept that New York design and hospitality firm AvroKO opened three years ago in the iconic Fagiani's bar space, will be
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Kicks Off Right Now In Napa; One-Day Passes Still Available The semi-big Napa music and food fest known as BottleRock, now in its third year at the Napa Valley Expo center, is just getting underway in the last hour, and it looks lik
SF News 4.1 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Napa County Thursday Night According to a preliminary report from the United States Geological Survey, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 struck just six miles from the Napa County town of Yountville Thursday evening. The
SF News What Is Going On In Napa?: Body Found In Freezer, Also More Details About Vineyard Shooting Though mentioned in brief yesterday in Day Around the Bay, it's time to turn our full attention to the fact that Napa seems to have gone from quiet to crazy in the span
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wines From December French Laundry Heist Recovered In North Carolina The huge cache of pricy wine that was stolen from The French Laundry on Christmas Day has mostly been recovered according to a new statement by the Napa County Sheriff's Department. As the
Arts & Entertainment Avett Brothers, No Doubt, and Robert Plant Top BottleRock 2015 Lineup They might be a bit overshadowed today by the Coachella lineup announcement, but Napa's little music festival that could, BottleRock, made its own announcement today. In keeping with the 2013 and 2014 lineups,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [UPDATE] French Laundry Robbed Of $300,000 Worth Of Fine Wine On Christmas Day Famed Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry fell victim to a Christmas Day heist that only wealthy wine snobs can appreciate the gravity of. As Inside Scoop reports, a thief or thieves made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry To Close For Several Months, Will Reopen With New Ticket System [Updated] The iconic French Laundry in Yountville has confirmed dates for a planned closure and major renovation, and the plans are a fair bit more ambitious than originally hinted at. As chef-owner Thomas Keller
SF News President Offers Federal Disaster Funds For Napa Earthquake The White House has officially declared the August 24 Napa earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks a major disaster and federal funds will therefore be available to aid in the cleanup. Per the White
SF News First Death From Napa Earthquake Was Woman Whose TV Fell On Her The first official earthquake-related death has just been reported as the Napa County Sheriff's Department confirms the passing of 65-year-old Laurie Anne Thompson, who was struck in the head when her television fell
SF News Did You Feel This Morning's Aftershocks? The U.S. Geological Survey promised that there would be aftershocks following the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Napa early Sunday, and they weren't kidding: so far Tuesday morning, there have been
